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Nature Neuroscience 7, 102 - 103 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nn0204-102

Listening to your heart: interoceptive awareness as a gateway to feeling

Antoine Bechara1 & Nasir Naqvi1

  1. The authors are in the Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. e-mail: becharaa@mail.medicine.uiowa.edu


Does awareness of the internal state of one's body relate to the conscious experience of feeling? A new imaging study suggests that body awareness mediated by activity in the anterior insular cortex may contribute to the intensity of negative emotions.

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